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Join IGNITE! Street Theater Arts Intensive
REGISTER FOR IGNITE! Apply for Tuition Assistance or Payment Plan Wise Fool New Mexico is excited to offer our first ever IGNITE! street theater arts intensive workshop – a re-imagined version of our popular community puppet builds and processions from years past. IGNITE! 2017 intensive for adults and teens and will run from August 27 to September … Read more
Send Your Message on Our Puppets!
Submit Your Message to D.C. Help Pack Our Puppets We’re Taking our Puppets to D.C. Wise Fool is pleased to announce that we are one of 15 circus companies nationwide invited to present at the Folklife Festival this July 3-10! Circus Arts are a special focus of the festival this year, along with themes of migration … Read more
BUST shows June 30th and July 1st!
PURCHASE TICKETS Join the women and gender nonconforming folks who participated in Wise Fool New Mexico’s 15th annual 6-week BUST Circus Camp as they present an inspired, meaningful, and daring display of acrobatics, trapeze, aerial fabric, stilt-walking, clowning, physical theater and more! May contain adult content. Performances on Friday June 30th at 7:30pm and Saturday … Read more
A Night of One-Woman Shows at Wise Fool, purchase tickets here!
PURCHASE TICKETS Come see traveling performers, Ariel Schmidtke and Esther de Monteflores, perform alongside three fabulous local women. Five different performances will be featured in the entire show! Saturday, June 10th at 8 PM, doors open at 7:30 PM Wise Fool New Mexico Studio, tickets by donation A Length of Rope Tour – A 501(c)(3) non-profit tour … Read more
NEA & Santa Fe
Did you know that Wise Fool New Mexico is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts? The NEA is an important funder for arts organizations, granting over $750,000 in funds last year to 72 organizations and artists in Santa Fe County alone. Yet this government agency’s budget is less than 1/10 the … Read more
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IGNITE Santa Fe!!
RAISE YOUR VOICE
Speak Your Truth - larger and louder than words thru giant puppets and art for the streets!
Wise Fool is excited to offer our first ever IGNITE! street theater arts intensive workshop - a re-imagined version of our popular community puppet builds and processions from years past. IGNITE! 2017 intensive for adults and teens will run from August 27 to September 9th, 2017 on weeknights and Saturday afternoons. In this two-week workshop participants will learn how to build giant puppets, stilt-walk, design and paint banners and other large scale visuals, as well as exploring storyboarding, choreographic pageantry, and character for outdoor spectacles, demonstrations and community events. IGNITE! will also include two public community puppet builds and will culminate in a procession and performance at the AHA Festival of Progressive Arts on the weekend of September 16 and 17.
The program is open to adults and teens (14+). Absolutely no experience necessary! Space is limited so sign up early to reserve your spot!
Cost of the program is $350. Tuition assistance and payment plans are available.
VISIT www.wisefoolnewmexico.org to register today!
Workshop Schedule
Sunday Aug 27 - 3 to 5pm intro gathering and brainstorm
Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday nights 6 to 8:30 pm
Saturdays September 2 and 9 - 12 to 3pm
PLUS:
Saturday September 16 - final public build and rehearsal
Sunday September 17 - procession and performance at AHA Festival
Wise Fool is proud to offer IGNITE! in collaboration with the AHA Festival, and MAKE Space. This project is brought to the Railyard Park and Plaza due to the partnership with the Railyard Art Project, a program of the Railyard Park Conservancy.
Ignite! Giant puppetry and street theater arts workshop
August 27, 2017, 3:00pm - September 9, 2017, 5:00pm
IGNITE Santa Fe!! RAISE YOUR VOICE Speak Your Truth - larger and louder than words thru giant puppets and art for the streets! Wise Fool is excited to offer our first ever IGNITE! street theater arts ...
A Wednesday memory! BitterSweet cast! #welifteachotherup #circuslife
#giantpuppets we made in DC at #smithsonianfolklifefestival are already back and In action locally! sharing #circuslove and joy with the families at #campcorazones. #wisefoolnm is honored to #bringthemagic perform and play at this incredible free camp for New Mexican families affected by AIDS every year!! #howtosantafe #newmexicotrue
Great quote for the day:
"We are faced with the media's fault of comparing politicians to clowns, and politics to circus. Circus is well organized and at the end of the day, its mission is to make people happy. Clowns are there to make you feel and think. I don't see any of that coming at us from Washington." - Keith Nelson, Bindlestiff Cirkus co-founder